I agree about the leverage and small website reasoning, definitely some game-theory related thinking is needed to get something like this right. But it does feel like this enables the "unionization" of websites against scraping giants, google is in an especially interesting position because, as you mentioned, could blackmail you into scraping in exchange for indexing.
>Google with get it for free because Google Search
What if the second step is that Google pays the page it visits? By enabling a crawler fee per page, news websites could make some articles uncrawlable unless a huge fee is paid. Just thinking aloud, but I could easily see a protocol stating pricing by different kinds of "licensing" e.g. "internal usage", "redistribution" (what google news did/does?), "LLM training", etc. Cloudflare, acting as a central point for millions of websites, makes this possible.
To me, it's every day more apparent that democracies are transitioning into mediocracies. Everything is performative, real results do not matter. It's not a coincidence that this administration has a bunch of TV personalities in it, including the president. Influencers are the new ruling class because the opinion of every m**n permanently glued to their phone is valid (i.e. a vote)
I was thinking exactly the same thing, down to the circumcision thing. This whole discourse gives me the vibe of something the American society has randomly walked on and now is an "it has always been like this".
I am not sure I agree with your take, but one of our era's big questions is whether the economy and/or big enough businesses/industries should be above politics (and the law?). I see the USA and China as extremes in this regard. We shall see.
China was able to build its own IT technologies thanks to decades of protectionism and smart maneuvers from the party. Europe, being under the US "umbrella", was in an almost impossible position to do so, along with the very poor attitude of European elites, which is one of rent-seeking rather than investment.
Regardless of the attitude, I don't see this happening without some form of protectionism, trump sperging out might be the chance of a century to reboot the European military and IT industries.
Indeed, and I encourage others to do the same. I'd rather pay a couple of bucks to make sure my post lands instead of hoping a funny intermediary will consider the post okay. I've got a post that has been pending review by moderators for six months, with me messaging the mods of said subreddit; never again. I think LLMs could actually improve reddit from this POV.
The way reddit admins operate is madly arbitrary. From experience, I am willing to bet that some subreddit admins or moderators get money under the table from interested parties to look the other way or worse.
I wouldn't consider myself a "busy professional" when it comes to mailing, but I know a few people who have an email-heavy workflow, I am happy to forward a link along
Well deserved, RL will only gain more importance as time goes on thanks to its (and neural nets) flexibility. The bitter lesson won't feel so bitter as we scale.
Seems to me the US has been trying to make Taiwan redundant for years, that, along with the most recent events, makes the writing on the wall clear. I think Taiwan will blink first. To me, the hate that China gets from the US elite is just because China is a success story, which puts American hegemony in doubt.
If skills and knowledge matter less and less because technology and automation grow over time, what matters if not already existing wealth? Might be an hyperbole dictated by the current times, who knows.
No, I'd rather not spend my time on what seems to be a promising exercise in moving the goalpost. Not sure I'd classify hungary as eastern European (I was mostly referring to slavs) but sure you can find at least a pro russian guy among eastern europeans, especially dictator ones.
>From what I gathered, people above a certain age say that their country was better under Soviet Union
Assuming this is true, it's because these are soviet leftovers who had a low education, were indoctrinated from a young age, and lived during the dream phase where you were told what to do, where to live, etc. Then came the bill when everything collapsed because this didn't work.
I can make everybody happy tomorrow by emptying the state coffers and institutionalizing national NEETDOM, can't promise our happiness will last long but we can try!
And regardless of what they think, it was shit.
Edit: about "why is Orban pro-putin?", this is a joke right?
This was the investment of the century for the USA. Send old garbage and help with intelligence to weaken a historical enemy, revive NATO, and acquire knowledge on the frontier of warfare.
The joke is on the USA, sadly.
Take the chance to freshen up on eastern European history and the absolute dark footprint that russia has cast on it during the centuries. There is a reason why eastern europeans would rather die than be under russian occupation.
It's not just about borders, it's about oppression, torture, destruction, and then borders again in a few years. To STILL not see what the russian world is about is truly an exercise in idiocy. Sorry, I had to answer a genuine question with a genuine statement
I tried BotW and it didn't really click. The food mechanics felt bolted on, just like the weapon durability stuff, and everything felt too easy/within reach. I guess I'm not the target, it's okay.
We got a switch a few years ago and it collected dust. The shop is overpriced (and slow) and I guess we aren't really into their first-party titles. I don't see what it offers against a steam deck except the aforementioned first-party titles.
edit: except the aforementioned first-party titles
Yes, even at 400k it's still salary depression. The whole thing is, essentially, regulatory capture that is being used to do a sort of "arbitrage" over people.
Big corporations in the West are cannibalizing society because governments are failing at defending the interests of the majority due to the lobbying power of a minority.
Mind you I am not talking about an uprising or some bullshit like that, but, for example, the situation around medical service/insurance in the US is appalling.